Just as a reminder, most of the materials I share in this page are about Bloom's revised taxonomy and not the first traditional version. Below is another graphic am adding to this section which I came across in my Twitter feeds today.
Does flipped learning mark a transformational change in the way instruction is delivered or is it just a mere replacement of teacher with digital media? This is one of the questions that has created a lot of controversy among educators. I have read several articles on this topic and have found a huge abyss between how teachers view it. However, flipped learning or not, the use of technology in education should be elevated to the rank of " integration" and so instead of speaking of using technology in teaching which is but doing the same things via the medium of technology, we rather talk about technology integration which is more structured and systematic.
As we venture into the 21st century, we as a society, are faced with more innovation and challenge than ever before. We now live in an interconnected world, where the Internet and global communications are simultaneously uniting and isolating us as a society. How do we raise critical thinkers to best face the challenges that face our modern society? What changes in education methods should be implemented to create a better learning environment for these budding minds?
I have found the following websites useful in my secondary school English classroom as they provide models of diverse ways of sharing personal stories, as well as explicit teaching resources on traditional and modern forms of storytelling.
In an effort to compete with the popular Evernote, Google recently unveiled Google Keep, an Android app which allows you to bookmark sites, make notes, record memos, add graphics and color-code notes for sorting. The Android app syncs with your Google Drive account.
Internet Polyglot is dedicated to helping our members learn foreign languages by providing them a way to memorize words and their meanings. This helps your memory to grasp more information and retain it for longer time. Access to all pages is free.
The website is ifaketext.com. Your students can create a text message conversation, between two characters in a book, for example, or people from history.